If a guy doesn't work hard and doesn't play well, he can't lead anything. All he is, is a talker.

The only yardstick for success our society has is being a champion. No one remembers anything else.

The road to Easy Street goes through the sewer.

Well, when you're playing good football, it's good football and if you don't have good football, then you're not really playing good football.

You got one guy going boom, one guy going whack, and one guy not getting in the endzone.

Don't worry about the horse being blind, just load the wagon.

I would have all my offensive linemen wrestle if I could.

at the end of the game the team with the most points on the board is going to win.

I always used to tell my players that we are here to win! And you know what, Al? When you don't win, you lose.

The best way to gain more yards is advance the ball down the field from the line of scrimmage.

In Oakland, Al Davis was a genius. We had Ron Wolff there, too, and he was a genius. There was no room for me to be a genius.

Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice?

What could possibly go wrong with faking love with a stranger on national TV?

Self-consciousness kills communication.

And I suffered you and gave you all my pieces

I'd put the most money on Robert Caro's biography of Lyndon Johnson - and not just because we'll probably still be waiting for the final volume in 2017.

Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt.

If you do not think well of Him because His qualities are beautiful then think well of Him because of the way He treats you.

Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.

I've never been one to have to manipulate women. I always want it to be like a mutual thing, like everybody loves everybody.

Throw off those chains of reason and your prison disappears.